A critical comparative analysis of five world university rankings
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- 作者：Henk F. Moed
- 关键词：University rankings ; Leiden ranking ; ARWU ranking ; THE ranking ; QS ranking ; U ; Multirank ; Comparative analysis
- 刊名：Scientometrics
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：110
- 期：2
- 页码：967-990
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- 刊物主题：Information Storage and Retrieval; Library Science;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1588-2861
- 卷排序：110
文摘
To provide users insight into the value and limits of world university rankings, a comparative analysis is conducted of five ranking systems: ARWU, Leiden, THE, QS and U-Multirank. It links these systems with one another at the level of individual institutions, and analyses the overlap in institutional coverage, geographical coverage, how indicators are calculated from raw data, the skewness of indicator distributions, and statistical correlations between indicators. Four secondary analyses are presented investigating national academic systems and selected pairs of indicators. It is argued that current systems are still one-dimensional in the sense that they provide finalized, seemingly unrelated indicator values rather than offering a dataset and tools to observe patterns in multi-faceted data. By systematically comparing different systems, more insight is provided into how their institutional coverage, rating methods, the selection of indicators and their normalizations influence the ranking positions of given institutions.